Musket balls, lead debris and a button that might be from a Spanish Royal Army uniform are expanding the batttlefield map of Texas’ deadliest fight.
Lead balls and fragments from muskets and artillery, presumably prepared for or fired in Texas ’ deadliest battle ever, are being unearthed in record numbers southwest of San Antonio . They're reshaping an old question, if not yet answering it: “Where exactly did it happen?” Historians have described the 1813 Battle of Medina as a “running fight” but have assumed there was a focus, a main encounter. Now they're not so sure.
Photo book explores Atascosa County’s quirks and curiosities The clash on the hot afternoon of Aug. 18, 1813, lasted about four hours. It ended the first Texas revolution against Spain, added a painful chapter to San Antonio history and gave a young lieutenant named Santa Anna some combat experience.
Santa Anna didn’t invent chewing gum, but helped make it popular Archaeologists have long been worried that lead battle relics may have sunk beyond range of ground-penetrating radar, which varies from less than 3 feet to up to 100 feet, depending on the soil. Northern Atascosa County’s sandy, loamy ground is good for growing strawberries. But the county’s name, dating to the 1780s, refers to a Spanish word describing boggy ground that made travel difficult.
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